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<div class="field field-name-field-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> <p>Spiritual insights for the seven species to deepen the celebration of Tu B'Shevat.</p> </div></div></div>Fri, 15 Jan 2016 15:20:54 +0000ronih184315 at http://ritualwell.orgA Tu B'shevat Seder: A Mindful Appreciation of the Creation of Treeshttp://ritualwell.org/blog/tu-bshevat-seder-mindful-appreciation-creation-trees
<div class="field field-name-field-blogimage field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/blog/tu-bshevat-seder-mindful-appreciation-creation-trees"><img src="http://ritualwell.org/sites/default/files/styles/blog_thumb/public/Henna%20Warman.png?itok=9QaV0n8u" width="100" height="100" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> <p>I practiced mindfulness once before. In a group of five, we raised individual wrinkled raisins from table to tongues. Rotating the tiny mass about my mouth, my mind wandered between the dehydrated folds. A seeming heedless mess of raised twists and turns covered the raisin’s rough exterior. Biting down, the small yet complex raisin caught between my molars, a sweet juice poured out and over my waiting taste buds.</p>
<p>Months later, surrounded by the carefully crafted hills of Tzfat, I am brought back to that moment. This time, it is a dried date that I flip over in my hand mindfully exploring its ridges. Similar to the raisin, the date is encased in a plastic-like mess of raised curves. This time, holding the caramel-colored date up at eye level, I am partaking in a Tu B’shevat<em> </em><a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary/4/letters#term326"><cite title="Lit. Order.
The festive meal conducted on Passover night, in a specific order with specific rituals to symbolize aspects of the Exodus from Egypt. It is conducted following the haggadah, a book for this purpose.&nbsp;The mystics of Sefat also created a seder for Tu B'shvat, the new year of the trees.
">seder</cite></a> and seated, not on the plush couches of an air conditioned Upper East Side living room, but the cool, tiled floor of a Tzfat <em><a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary/4/letters#term355"><cite title="Lit. hut or booth
A temporary hut constructed outdoors for use during Sukkot, the autumn harvest festival. Many Jews observe the mitzvah of living in the Sukkah for the week of Sukkot, including taking their meals and sleeping in the Sukkah.
">sukkah</cite></a></em>. Someone to my right volunteers to read aloud from the Tu B’shevat Companions that have been passed around to the thirty of us gathered closely around heaping plates of Israel’s Seven Species: “Palm trees attracted the curiosity and praises of our Sages for having a variety of utilities. This inspired them to claim the palm as a symbol of sustainability and a waste-free life. Every part of the tree is useful and has a purpose.”</p>
<p>Tu B’shevat is a celebration of nature. It is a day dedicated to mindful appreciation of G-d’s awe-inspiring artistry in the crafting of the trees in the garden below the balcony where I sit, the hills surrounding me on all sides, and the fruits whose textures and tastes I carefully inspect. I recognize G-d’s masterful intention in every bump He raised in the surface of the fig; each pomegranate seed has a role that no other pomegranate seed can serve. “Every part of the tree . . . has a purpose,” I am reminded.</p>
<p>Mindfulness of G-d’s attention to the fine details of His every creation, then, becomes My Tu B’shevat. Like the palm tree that “has nothing wasted from it: the dates are for eating, the young unopened branches are for the <a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary/4/letterl#term262"><cite title="On Sukkot, three of the four species (the palm, the myrtle, and the willow)&nbsp;are bound and waved together with the etrog. The lulav is said to symbolize the spine, while the myrtle's leaves symbolize eyes, the willow's leaves are lips, and the etrog is the heart.
">lulav</cite></a> . . . the fibers around the trunk are used to make rope . . .,” I recognize that every olive pit discarded into the piling mound before me has its own unique purpose. I recognize that each of the singing and swaying men and women who have selected to spend <em><a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary/4/letters#term333"><cite title="Shabbat is the Sabbath day, the Day of Rest, and is observed from Friday night through Saturday night. Is set aside from the rest of the week both in honor of the fact that God rested on the seventh day after creating the world. On Shabbat, many Jews observe prohibitions from various activities designated as work.&nbsp;Shabbat is traditionally observed with festive meals, wine, challah, prayers, the reading and studying of Torah, conjugal relations, family time, and time with friends.
">Shabbat</cite></a></em> at Livnot U’Lehibanot share an individual role in my deep appreciation of this moment. I recognize that this is a meaningful moment because I am mindful of G-d’s ingenuity in the creation of fruits and friends alike. And, for this, I am grateful.</p>
<p>Tu B’shevat at Livnot enabled me an awareness of G-d’s purposeful creativity. Livnot is a soulful, wholesome home that G-d, surely, took good care in crafting. The plump date is a symbol of sustainability and purposefulness, and Tu B’shevat at Livnot has helped me to sustain an appreciation of this and all creation. My Livnot Tu Tu B’shevat makes every day a holiday. </p>
<hr /><p>Read an excerpt from Livnot U'Lehibanot's Tu B’shevat companion <a href="https://www.ritualwell.org/ritual/tu-bshvat-companion-handbook-new-year-tree">here</a>!<br /><br />
Explore and download Livnot U'Lehibanot's complete Tu B’shevat companion <a href="http://www.livnot.org/tu-bshvat-2016/">here</a>! </p>
<hr /><p>Henna Warman is a nurse from Brooklyn, New York. She hopes to incorporate writing and creative expression into her nursing care, as well as recognition of and appreciation for our naturally healing surroundings.<br /><br /><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/Livnot%20Logo.png" style="width: 100px; height: 80px; float: left;" />Livnot U'Lehibanot (Hebrew for “To Build and Be Built”) is an integrated Israel experience of volunteering, hiking, and community building that allows participants to explore themselves and connections to their Jewish roots and heritage. Livnot U’Lehibanot has been providing short term Israel programs for young Jewish adults and enhancing Israel and Diaspora communities for 35 years with over 7,000 alumni and 25,000 volunteers.</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 13 Jan 2016 23:15:53 +0000kamiknapp4314 at http://ritualwell.orgA Tu b'Shvat Sederhttp://ritualwell.org/ritual/tu-bshvat-seder
<div class="field field-name-field-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> <p>A modern Tu B'shvat <em><a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary/4/letters#term326"><cite title="Lit. Order.
The festive meal conducted on Passover night, in a specific order with specific rituals to symbolize aspects of the Exodus from Egypt. It is conducted following the haggadah, a book for this purpose.&nbsp;The mystics of Sefat also created a seder for Tu B'shvat, the new year of the trees.
">seder</cite></a></em> based in the mystical tradition of the four worlds</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:22:04 +0000Kevin176 at http://ritualwell.orgThe JOFA Tu b'Shvat Sederhttp://ritualwell.org/ritual/jofa-tu-bshvat-seder
<div class="field field-name-field-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> <p>A modern Tu B'shevat <em><a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary/4/letters#term326"><cite title="Lit. Order.
The festive meal conducted on Passover night, in a specific order with specific rituals to symbolize aspects of the Exodus from Egypt. It is conducted following the haggadah, a book for this purpose.&nbsp;The mystics of Sefat also created a seder for Tu B'shvat, the new year of the trees.
">seder</cite></a> </em>based on the kabbalistic tradition, featuring some special additions about Jewish women</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:19:53 +0000Kevin175 at http://ritualwell.orgThe Fruit of the Tree of Knowledgehttp://ritualwell.org/ritual/fruit-tree-knowledge
<div class="field field-name-field-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> <p>A set of <em>kavannot</em> to supplement the Tu b'Shevat <em><a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary/4/letters#term326"><cite title="Lit. Order.
The festive meal conducted on Passover night, in a specific order with specific rituals to symbolize aspects of the Exodus from Egypt. It is conducted following the haggadah, a book for this purpose.&nbsp;The mystics of Sefat also created a seder for Tu B'shvat, the new year of the trees.
">seder</cite></a> </em>rituals (includes parallel Hebrew translation)</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:18:17 +0000Kevin174 at http://ritualwell.orgRosh Chodesh Shevathttp://ritualwell.org/ritual/rosh-chodesh-shevat
<div class="field field-name-field-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> <p>A Tu b'Shevat <a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary/4/letters#term326"><cite title="Lit. Order.
The festive meal conducted on Passover night, in a specific order with specific rituals to symbolize aspects of the Exodus from Egypt. It is conducted following the haggadah, a book for this purpose.&nbsp;The mystics of Sefat also created a seder for Tu B'shvat, the new year of the trees.
">seder</cite></a> of fragrances for <a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary/4/letterr#term320"><cite title="The new moon, which marks the beginning of the Jewish month. According to tradition, because women did not participate in the sin of the golden calf, they were given the holiday of Rosh Chodesh. It is customary for women not to work on Rosh Chodesh.
">Rosh Chodesh</cite></a> Shevat</p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:15:27 +0000Kevin173 at http://ritualwell.org